There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach
Wednesday 2 December 2015
Monday 30 November 2015
चूड़ियाँ
मैंने लोगो को कहते सुना है, हाथों में चूड़ियाँ पहन लो | इसका अर्थ है कि आपमें साहस कि कमी है और चूडि़यां पहनने वाले हाथ कमजोर है | किन्तु मैं इससे सहमत नहीं | एक भिन्न दृष्टिकोण से चूड़ियों पर उल्लेख-
बजती
हैं माँ कि चूड़ियाँ,
रसोई
में मेरे लिए स्वादिष्ट भोजन पकाने के लिए,
मंदिर
की घंटी बजा कर मेरे लिए दुआ का हाथ उठाने के लिए |
बजती
है माँ कि चूड़ियाँ,
मुझे
थपकी दे कर सुलाने के लिए,
मुझ
पर आशीष बरसाने के लिए |
बजती
रहे ममता भरी ये चूड़ियाँ ||
बजती
है बहन कि चूड़ियाँ,
मुझे
सता कर अपने पीछे दौड़ाने के लिए,
मुझ
से मीठी नोक-झोंक में कमर पर हाथ रख धौंस जमाने के लिए |
बजती
है बहन कि चूड़ियाँ,
मेरे
माथे पर चंदन का टीका लगाने के लिए,
मेरे
हाथों में राखी सजाने के लिए |
बजती
रहे शरारत भरी ये चूड़ियाँ ||
बजती
है पत्नी कि चूड़ियाँ,
प्रतीक्षारत
हाथो से दरवाज़ा खोलने के लिए,
मुझे
आलिंगनबद्ध कर मनुहार जताने के लिए |
बजती
है पत्नी कि चूड़ियाँ,
मेरी
पसंद के पकवान बनाने के लिए,
मेरे
घर आँगन को सँवारने के लिए |
बजती
रहे प्रेम भरी ये चूड़ियाँ ||
बजती
है बेटी कि चूड़ियाँ,
मेरे
घर को अपनी किलकारियों से सजाने के लिए,
नन्हे
हाथों से गुड्डे गुड़ियों संग खेलने के लिए |
बजती
है बेटी कि चूड़ियाँ,
ससुराल
जाते हुए छुप कर आँसू पोंछेने के लिए,
दौड़ते
हुए मेरे सीने से लग जाने के लिए |
बजती
रहे मासूमियत भरी ये चूड़ियाँ ||
Saturday 28 November 2015
Book Review: The God of Small Things
Puzzled to see another book review so soon!? Well, a book review always doesn't mean that I have FINISHED the book and that too so quickly. It may even mean that I have given up further reading, but as a ritual I am penning down my views.
I found out this Bestseller and 1997's "Booker Prize" winner book at the start of this month on Goodreads here. With a whooping 7343 reviews and 151237 ratings, this occurred to me as something I can invest upon. I ordered it then, and after eagerly waiting for long (including Diwali vacations), I received it a few days back.
I don't know much about the author- Arundhati Roy, but upon reading some of this book I presume she is a great scholar in English literature. If these many people have read and reviewed the book on the planet, there is no second thought for it to be called a masterpiece.
But for me, I could not bear with the flooding number of characters and holding the dictionary in the other hand to decrypt the powerful vocabulary. The South Christian from around 1960s, was what I could not relate to at all. It gave me gloomy feeling. The story hopped from one character's back story to the other. I tried hard to interpret the vocabulary contextually and to understand the characters' perspectives. Amusingly (and to my embarrassment), as soon as I switched to the consecutive paragraph, the previous one was wiped of from my memory. My patience couldn't survive for more than 52 pages, and I gave up. Not only me, I later heard from some other friends that they are also sailing in the same boat as me! May be one day my intellect would grow up and I would again open up this book to finish upto the last page.
Till then, all I can say is, there is a difference between what is the best and what is suited for you.
(PS: the reviews expressed here are based on my personal reading experience, and do not intend to defame, derate or degrade the sale or vice-versa for the book. I am not paid for writing the reviews.)
If you are an author and want your book to be reviewed, drop an email at bookreviews@mansiladha.com.
I found out this Bestseller and 1997's "Booker Prize" winner book at the start of this month on Goodreads here. With a whooping 7343 reviews and 151237 ratings, this occurred to me as something I can invest upon. I ordered it then, and after eagerly waiting for long (including Diwali vacations), I received it a few days back.
I don't know much about the author- Arundhati Roy, but upon reading some of this book I presume she is a great scholar in English literature. If these many people have read and reviewed the book on the planet, there is no second thought for it to be called a masterpiece.
But for me, I could not bear with the flooding number of characters and holding the dictionary in the other hand to decrypt the powerful vocabulary. The South Christian from around 1960s, was what I could not relate to at all. It gave me gloomy feeling. The story hopped from one character's back story to the other. I tried hard to interpret the vocabulary contextually and to understand the characters' perspectives. Amusingly (and to my embarrassment), as soon as I switched to the consecutive paragraph, the previous one was wiped of from my memory. My patience couldn't survive for more than 52 pages, and I gave up. Not only me, I later heard from some other friends that they are also sailing in the same boat as me! May be one day my intellect would grow up and I would again open up this book to finish upto the last page.
Till then, all I can say is, there is a difference between what is the best and what is suited for you.
(PS: the reviews expressed here are based on my personal reading experience, and do not intend to defame, derate or degrade the sale or vice-versa for the book. I am not paid for writing the reviews.)
If you are an author and want your book to be reviewed, drop an email at bookreviews@mansiladha.com.